Assignment for Monday, September 25

I was going to link you to some pictures of crocodiles eating other large animals.  But the humor of it just died as I became more and more horrified.  So I won't share that with you. 

But for Monday, read and summarize:  248-256.

I was thinking about the idea that we're grow more inclined to call you a cause of an event as the effort required to stop it shrinks.  What if I could save the drowning child merely by saying "unto the whole person"?   Still...I don't think you're right to think that I murdered the child if I don't say it. 

Now.  What if I could save the child by merely continuing to breathe normally--but instead, I knowingly hold my breath for a few seconds.  In that case, I go out of my way, slightly, to change my behavior.  I had nothing to do with the child's plight--maybe that was an accident--but I'm still showing, if not a plan to end his life, at least a willingness to help end it. 

I have no idea if "go out of my way slightly" can really bear that much moral importance.  But that's how it seems to me at the moment.  We'll talk.